This morning I was browsing YouTube and it suggested a number of vidoes about new free soft synthesizers for 2024: so I had a look at a couple and thought, "Why am I wasting my time looking at these? I can do everything that these are showing me in Vital,
It is far better to thoroughly learn one or two synthesizers than to collect a large amount of synthesizers and not learn how to tweak the sounds to give me the sound that I want.
Of course if all I want is to use preset sounds it may make sense to install these synthesizers, but then I will spend hours trying to find the perfect preset and may still not find it.
So again it is much better to learn sound design for a good synthesizer and then create the sound I want."
IMHO two good synthesizers to learn are Vital and Surge (both of which are free). There are lots of videos about sound design for both these synths and there are lots of sound packs available if you can’t design your own.
What do you think?
